Along the way, generations of readers have met a host of unforgettable characters: their watchful & hardworking mother, Marmee formidable Aunt March kindly Mr. The novel chronicles the episodes, large & small, of the sisters' progress toward adulthood: their amateur theatricals, sibling rivalries & reconciliations, friendships & romance, & the loss of loved ones. Set in a small New England town during the Civil War & Reconstruction, 'Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy' (1868-69), introduces Alcott's remarkable heroines, the March sisters (above all, her alter ego Jo March, w/ her literary ambition & independent spirit. This volume also includes the original illustrations, some drawn by Alcott's sister May, that accompanied the books' first printings. Here, in an authoritative single-volume edition from LOA, are all 3 'Little Women' books as Alcott wrote them. Yet from this modest start, she fashioned a series of novels that catapulted her to fame & fortune in her own time & remain among the most beloved works in all of American literature. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW rayon-weave blue Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ blue silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished lightweight opaque archival paper * 5.06' x 8.12' x 1.50', 0.73 kg, 1092 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Asked by her publisher to 'write a girls' book', Louisa May Alcott at first doubted her abilities she confessed to her journal that she 'never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters'. 2005) Fourth Printing (2012 ): NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. BELOVED: UNFORGETTABLE: HEART-WARMING: BRILLIANT: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig.

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